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100
What ushered in Victoria's rule?
What is the death of William IV?
100
The famous land grab of Africa by European powers
What is "Scramble for Africa"
100
Due to this reform women were allowed to get jobs in the working industries
What is Industrial revolution
100
In Victorian England, people's lives were generally governed by the class into which they were born. Social mobility, however, was possible. All of the following could enable social movement EXCEPT:(Education, Marriage, Manners, Money)
What is Manners?
100
The name of the most famous male novelist in the Victorian Era
Who is Charles Dickens?
200
What nation had 60 percent of their food source destroyed in a famine?
What is Ireland?
200
Even that caused mass starvation and poverty in Ireland during the 19th century
What is the Irish potato famine
200
Of both opposing sides of the Darwinism, this group was created to reconcile science and religion.
What is Christian Darwinism.
200
(True or False) Arranged marriages were the norm in Victorian England.
What is False?
200
The dominant writing form at the beginning of the Victorian Era
What is the poem?
300
Under what system did slaves work under in 1834?
What is an Apprenticeship?
300
The inventor of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
300
The form of schools that female students were allowed to attend.
What is "Adventure” or “voluntary" schools
300
During the Victorian Era this sexual act began to flourish?
What is Prostitution?
300
This question questioned the treatment and role of women and created controversy.
What is "the woman question?"
400
In 1840 what was introduced to the poor?
What is Vaccinations?
400
A waterway that cut travel to Asia and Australia drastically
What is the Suez Canal
400
A theory that appeared out of a book, by Charles Darwin.
What is Darwinism.
400
Life was fraught with disease and illness for Victorians. What was the leading cause of death in nineteenth-century Britain?
What is Tuberculosis?
500
Under what government were income taxes imposed?
What is Sir Robert Peel's conservative government?
500
The serial killer who murdered women in London
Who is Jack the Ripper
500
He was known for using Greek techniques in his art.
What is Frederic Leighton.
500
What was the most common mode of transportation (other than rail) in Victorian England?
What is Walking?
500
Name the novel where Charles Dickens describes the unequal punishment given to the rich and the poor.
What is "Bleak House"